A new ADCP at MIO !

This new "Signature 500 kHz 5-beam" ADCP, obtained as part of the A*Midex Blanc HOPE-VV project (PI A. Petrenko), will shortly be sent to New Caledonia to be deployed in an anchorage off Noumea for two years.

At the center of a square of moorings with four conventional (4-beam) ADCPs measuring ocean velocities, the aim of this 5-beam ADCP is to obtain a time series not only of horizontal velocities, but also of vertical velocity with good accuracy, despite the fact that the latter is generally much lower than horizontal velocities.